Ubuntu 21.04 Is Here

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32 points·csbartus··10 comments

Is it me, or this looks like a covert Microsoft > Ubuntu takeover?

Long time Ubuntu user, first time I see release notes mentioning a brand. More exactly, tailored to a brand.

I'm a bit worried. I was Microsoft-free for decades, now everything around me (repository, programming language, editor, package manager, operating system??) starts to be Microsoft again.

It's perhaps nothing wrong with this. But I guess there is a certain cohort which will never forgive and forget the Microsoft deeds.

So, because it is an « Open source operating system based on Linux » Ubuntu might just forget every partnerships to make his distribution more « work friendly » for the average consumer?

That’s a bit too extremist...

You’re still free to not use the Microsoft products integration.

> which will never forgive and forget the Microsoft deeds

Which are those?

Embrace-Extend-Extinguish

It's not a "Microsoft takeover". Whoever wrote the release notes, shows a focus to business users rather than the community.

Microsoft now Embracing Ubuntu/Linux. We know their Embrace-Extend-Extinguish.

You might have missed the era during which search queries (and motd messages) in the Ubuntu Desktop environment were forwarded to Amazon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26902795 | 287 comments

I’ve switched to Fedora Core on my Linux machines, from someone who started out on Debian and used Ubuntu since it first came out.

I even made a Fedora WSL image for when I’m on Windows.

Reasons: Snap, primarily. Also prefer vanilla GNOME.

I thought I would be going back to Ubuntu with 20.04 but SNAP put me off so I've stayed with Linux Mint. This release looks like it's another step further away from what I prefer.

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